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You don't really know a song until you play it live.

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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
Guitarist
Keyboardist
Manufacturer
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Robert James Smith
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Live
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I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
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I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.
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I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway
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I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
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I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'
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It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
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I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.
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I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.
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I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.
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No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.
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I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
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I'm not a morose person it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.
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B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two Once prized for the function, Now for the view.
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It's better to forget than remember me and cry.
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I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
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I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
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I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.
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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
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